Mary is not Merry

Guadalupe 2022-04-22 07:01:54

At a bar, you can dream about a man who is waiting for his girlfriend. Love is no longer a normal and sustainable emotion for her. She regards it as a life-saving straw, the straw that pulls her ashore before she is completely swallowed up by aging.

For her colleague's family, her eyes were full of envy. Like a grudge, she complained that when she was young, she didn't understand emotions and was confused, and when she was middle-aged, she was ruthlessly abandoned, complaining about the trivial things in life. Complaining and making excuses for myself: I'm doing fine by myself.
God knows what you say to others when you're drinking and telling the truth is all the comfort you want to hear from someone else. Everybody needs someone to talk to.

No youth, no temperament, no wealth. Mary seems to have been abandoned. She used chatter to cover up her loneliness, but she showed her loneliness even more, and she longed to be cared for. From beginning to end, all I saw was her sadness and embarrassment. Trying to be an independent woman, failed.
Is life so hard for a single woman? Or she made her life so difficult.

I'm still in the prime of my life, why does this movie resonate with Mary.

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Another Year quotes

  • Mary: I'm very much a glass-half-full kind of girl. But it's tricky, because... I meet these older men who want somebody younger, and that's great, because I fit the bill. But... when they find out that... you know, I'm not as young as they thought, they don't want to know. My looks work against me.

  • Gerri: Life's not always kind, is it?

    Mary: No, it isn't Gerri.

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